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Funnily enough, my MacBook Air 2013 produces a buzzing sound on SSD access. It's barely audible, but it's there.

1ris 8y ago
So does my Kingston SSD. And the switching of my switching power supply sometimes (rarely) is the loudest thing in my desktop pc.
hobofan 8y ago
My MacBook Air 2013 is routinely the loudest machine in the room when it's compiling or similar.
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- makapuf 8y ago
  Does it have fans? If not, what kind of noise is this ?
  - kkylin 8y ago
    MBAs have fans, the 12" MacBook doesn't.
  - analog31 8y ago
    Possibly inductors vibrating.
  - SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
    "Coil whine".
    - hobofan 8y ago
      No, the sound comes mostly from the fans, which when at their maximum start to get loud.
tigershark 8y ago
Oh...it’s not just me then.. Every couple of months I check my 2015 MacBook Pro system info because I’m utterly convinced that it has an hard drive because of the SSD noise. It’s quite frustrating actually..
- cptskippy 8y ago
  Imagine being a kid in the 80s or 90s at school and hearing the distinctive 20k tone of a CRT Television humming and wondering if you were going to be watching TV in one of your classes that day. It was like a dog whistle for kids.
  - toomanybeersies 8y ago
    For me that was a thing until the late 2000's. They were still using CRT TVs in 2012 when I finished high school. I wouldn't be surprised if there were still plenty of schools with CRT TVs and VCRs for educational material.
    - glenneroo 8y ago
      I still have a 19" CRT[0] as 2nd monitor at work because... why not?? It still works most of the time and supports a decent resolution (1400x1050 - 1600x1200 flickers). And it's a nice nostalgic conversation piece :) [0] https://www.cnet.com/products/compaq-s910-crt-monitor-19-series/specs/ https://www.cnet.com/products/compaq-s910-crt-monitor-19-ser...
  - hunter2_ 8y ago
    If you're in the US or anywhere else with NTSC, the horizontal scan rate (and thus the whine of the flyback transformer) is 15.75 kHz :) 525 lines / 2 for interlacing * 60 fields per second = 15750
    - burfog 8y ago
      times 1000/1001 ever since color was introduced, so about 15734 Hz

1ris 8y ago

So does my Kingston SSD. And the switching of my switching power supply sometimes (rarely) is the loudest thing in my desktop pc.

hobofan 8y ago

My MacBook Air 2013 is routinely the loudest machine in the room when it's compiling or similar.

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makapuf 8y ago
Does it have fans? If not, what kind of noise is this ?
- kkylin 8y ago
  MBAs have fans, the 12" MacBook doesn't.
- analog31 8y ago
  Possibly inductors vibrating.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
  "Coil whine".
  - hobofan 8y ago
    No, the sound comes mostly from the fans, which when at their maximum start to get loud.

tigershark 8y ago

Oh...it’s not just me then.. Every couple of months I check my 2015 MacBook Pro system info because I’m utterly convinced that it has an hard drive because of the SSD noise. It’s quite frustrating actually..

cptskippy 8y ago
Imagine being a kid in the 80s or 90s at school and hearing the distinctive 20k tone of a CRT Television humming and wondering if you were going to be watching TV in one of your classes that day. It was like a dog whistle for kids.
- toomanybeersies 8y ago
  For me that was a thing until the late 2000's. They were still using CRT TVs in 2012 when I finished high school. I wouldn't be surprised if there were still plenty of schools with CRT TVs and VCRs for educational material.
  - glenneroo 8y ago
    I still have a 19" CRT[0] as 2nd monitor at work because... why not?? It still works most of the time and supports a decent resolution (1400x1050 - 1600x1200 flickers). And it's a nice nostalgic conversation piece :) [0] https://www.cnet.com/products/compaq-s910-crt-monitor-19-series/specs/ https://www.cnet.com/products/compaq-s910-crt-monitor-19-ser...
- hunter2_ 8y ago
  If you're in the US or anywhere else with NTSC, the horizontal scan rate (and thus the whine of the flyback transformer) is 15.75 kHz :) 525 lines / 2 for interlacing * 60 fields per second = 15750
  - burfog 8y ago
    times 1000/1001 ever since color was introduced, so about 15734 Hz